Who we are

The Major Projects Con­tract Devel­op­ment & Col­lab­o­ra­tion Team coor­di­nates our role as a change agent for the high­ways indus­try in order to assist the achieve­ment of effi­ciency improve­ments in local roads delivery.

The pri­or­ity is for us to work col­lab­o­ra­tively or in part­ner­ship with local author­i­ties to achieve pro­cure­ment effi­ciency improvements.

The High­ways Agency sup­ports the High­ways Effi­ciency Liai­son Group (HELG). Senior roads indus­try rep­re­sen­ta­tives from sup­pli­ers, pro­fes­sional bod­ies, other change agents, the Depart­ment for Trans­port and the High­ways Agency are members.

What we do

The Major Projects Con­tract Devel­op­ment & Col­lab­o­ra­tion Team inves­ti­gates how and where col­lab­o­ra­tion can be achieved work­ing across the high­ways indus­try. It seeks to bring about a cul­tural change in the way high­ways work is pro­cured and deliv­ered.  The team is devel­op­ing ways to cap­ture and share best prac­tice; ensur­ing suc­cesses in one area are trans­ferred to others

How we do it

The High­ways Effi­ciency Liai­son Group (HELG) is the key vehi­cle for engag­ing indus­try and tak­ing ini­tia­tives for­ward. The group meets reg­u­larly to dis­cuss spe­cific issues and chal­lenge the way pro­cure­ment is car­ried out. HELG is instru­men­tal in dis­sem­i­nat­ing the mes­sage of col­lab­o­ra­tion and effi­ciency into the local author­i­ties and suppliers..

HELG endorsed the key strat­egy doc­u­ment “Achiev­ing Effi­ciency Gains From Col­lab­o­ra­tive Roads Pro­cure­ment” (see above), which sets out seven inter­linked objec­tives and work is in progress to achieve them.

HELG has pub­lished an annual Toolkit For Local Trans­port High­ways Effi­ciency Gains. This gives fur­ther advice to local author­i­ties on the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and mea­sure­ment of effi­ciency gains in High­ways. We have also com­mis­sioned and pub­lished a report by Hap­pold Con­sult­ing Achiev­ing Effi­cient Deliv­ery of Local High­ways Ser­vices — June 2006 (421KB PDF). Its objec­tive is to help local high­ways author­i­ties to develop their pro­cure­ment strate­gies to achieve greater ser­vice deliv­ery efficiency.

Fact sheet

For full infor­ma­tion on HELG, it’s var­i­ous pub­li­ca­tions and activ­i­ties see www.helg.org. Fact sheets on how local author­i­ties can access HA Frame­work Con­tracts are avail­able here:

• The High­ways Effi­fi­ciency Liai­son Group (HELG) - Fact Sheet (231 KB PDF)
• High­ways Agency National Tech­ni­cal Con­sul­tancy Arrange­ments 2009 (PDF 368KB)
• Toolkit for Iden­ti­fy­ing and Mea­sur­ing Effi­ciency in Local High­ways (209MB PDF)
• National Frame­work for Project Sup­port - Type A (306KB PDF)
• National Frame­work for Project Sup­port - Type B (250KB PDF)
• East and South East Asset Man­age­ment Frame­work (PDF 512KB)

Links to High­ways Effi­ciency Liai­son Group organisations:

• The Insti­tu­tion of High­ways and Trans­porta­tion (IHT)
• The County Sur­vey­ors’ Soci­ety (CSS)
• The Tech­ni­cal Advi­sors Group (TAG)
• Pub­lic Pri­vate Part­ner­ship Pro­gramme (4Ps)
• Civil Engi­neer­ing Con­trac­tors Asso­ci­a­tion (CECA)
• Asso­ci­a­tion for Con­sul­tancy and Engi­neer­ing (ACE)
• High­ways Term Main­te­nance Asso­ci­a­tion (HTMA)
• Con­struct­ing Excellence
• Regional Cen­tres of Excel­lence (RCEs)

Other use­ful links

• Audit Com­mis­sion
• Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ties and Local Gov­ern­ment (Local Govt pages)
• Improve­ment and Devel­op­ment Agency
• Depart­ment. of Transport
• National Audit Office
• HM Trea­sury

Please let us know if you have any com­ments or would like any fur­ther infor­ma­tion either by phone on 01234 796133, post or e-mail ceteam@highways.gsi.gov.uk